The Perfect Hairdo….

We have all had them-bad hair days. Often times and this shouldn’t be the case, but a bad, bad hair day can cause our moods to shift dramatically. Okay maybe not dramatically but just enough to send us to the hair salon the next day searching for that “perfect hairdo”!!

This was such the case for me. I’ve always been a dirty blonde and I was happy with that choice, most of the time until I recently decided to die my hair chestnut brown. I’m afraid to say this was doom for all of those around me. I’ve learned a couple of important life facts recently: 1) You hair is your personality-it’s YOU-it describes your attributes, who you are, who you hope to be and where you are in your life RIGHT NOW. 2) You should take care of yourself first if you want everyone else to be happy. If you haven’t brushed your teeth or brushed your hair in two days, I’m quite sure your not performing at your BEST.

On with the color change. The brown just didn’t sit well with me. The color actually made me feel a little down. It swallowed up my fair-medium complexion and didn’t give me the spring in my step that blonde highlights usually do! I’m okay with admitting that I like blonder hair better!

Maybe I thought for the beautiful season of Fall that chestnut brown hair would add to the color scheme, that maybe I would be taken a little bit more seriously, that my hair would look healthier. It didn’t do anything for me except make me glad I tried it. In my lifetime I will never die my hair again-brown. I like the airiness of blonder hair, the fun in it; it’s not that brunettes can’t have fun-they do. It’s simply that I like bright light-bright light in my home, bright white furnishings, and lighter hair. It describes my personality-funny, happy, and free.

Their is no perfect hairdo. I think I printed 4 or 5 photos of these “perfect” celebrities who appear to look great just rolling out of bed. This is just not my reality. I’m a Mom, a wife, a Step Mom, a daughter, a sister. I wanted a hairdo that describes where I am in my life right now…..so I picked Jennifer Aniston’s photos to justify my haircut. Was I kidding myself-she’s not a Mom, at least not yet anyway-she probably has her hairstylist follow her around the country and he/she changes it when the occasion arises. I was already setting myself up for failure. I think many people do. They look at these fashion magazines, catalogues, and rightly so, think that could be ME. The reality is you need to be able to pull off your hairstyle, cut, and color when your at the supermarket and run into 40 people you know! (sometimes on these such occasions I pull out a hat!).

I’m starting to accept my imperfections, my short-comings, and my small failures. I look in the mirror and see an almost 40-year old momma who loves her family and her life here in New York. A bad hairdo will simply not keep me from living my wildest dreams…………